Numbers, starting at chapter 16
{16:1} Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of
Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of
Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men]: {16:2} and they rose up before
Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty
princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown;
{16:3} and they assembled themselves together against Moses and
against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much on you, seeing all
the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them:
why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of Yahweh? {16:4} When
Moses heard it, he fell on his face: {16:5} and he spoke to Korah and
to all his company, saying, In the morning Yahweh will show who are
his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him: even him
whom he shall choose he will cause to come near to him. {16:6} This
do: take you censers, Korah, and all his company; {16:7} and put fire
in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow: and it shall
be that the man whom Yahweh does choose, he [shall be] holy: you take
too much on you, you sons of Levi. {16:8} Moses said to Korah, Hear
now, you sons of Levi: {16:9} [seems it but] a small thing to you,
that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of
Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tent of
Yahweh, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;
{16:10} and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the
sons of Levi with you? and seek you the priesthood also? {16:11}
Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against
Yahweh: and Aaron, what is he who you murmur against him? {16:12}
Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they
said, We won't come up: {16:13} is it a small thing that you have
brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in
the wilderness, but you must needs make yourself also a prince over
us? {16:14} Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with
milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will
you put out the eyes of these men? we won't come up. {16:15} Moses was
very angry, and said to Yahweh, "Don't respect their offering: I have
not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them."
{16:16} Moses said to Korah, You and all your company go before
Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow: {16:17} and take every man
his censer, and put incense on them, and bring you before Yahweh every
man his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each
his censer. {16:18} They took every man his censer, and put fire in
them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent of
meeting with Moses and Aaron. {16:19} Korah assembled all the
congregation against them to the door of the tent of meeting: and the
glory of Yahweh appeared to all the congregation. {16:20} Yahweh spoke
to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {16:21} Separate yourselves from among
this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. {16:22} They
fell on their faces, and said, God, the God of the spirits of all
flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the
congregation? {16:23} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {16:24} Speak to
the congregation, saying, Get away from around the tent of Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram. {16:25} Moses rose up and went to Dathan and
Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. {16:26} He spoke to the
congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these
wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all
their sins. {16:27} So they got them up from the tent of Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and
stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and
their little ones. {16:28} Moses said, Hereby you shall know that
Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them]
of my own mind. {16:29} If these men die the common death of all men,
or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Yahweh
hasn't sent me. {16:30} But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground
open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them,
and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that
these men have despised Yahweh. {16:31} It happened, as he made an end
of speaking all these words, that the ground split apart that was
under them; {16:32} and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them
up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah,
and all their goods. {16:33} So they, and all that appertained to
them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and
they perished from among the assembly. {16:34} All Israel that were
round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the
earth swallow us up. {16:35} Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured
the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense. {16:36} Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying, {16:37} Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the
priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter
you the fire yonder; for they are holy, {16:38} even the censers of
these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten
plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before
Yahweh; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the
children of Israel. {16:39} Eleazar the priest took the bronze
censers, which those who were burnt had offered; and they beat them
out for a covering of the altar, {16:40} to be a memorial to the
children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed
of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as
Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses. {16:41}
But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have killed the
people of Yahweh. {16:42} It happened, when the congregation was
assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the
tent of meeting: and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of
Yahweh appeared. {16:43} Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent
of meeting. {16:44} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {16:45} Get away
from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
They fell on their faces. {16:46} Moses said to Aaron, Take your
censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense
thereon, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement
for them: for there is wrath gone out from Yahweh; the plague is
begun. {16:47} Aaron took as Moses spoke, and ran into the midst of
the assembly; and behold, the plague was begun among the people: and
he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. {16:48} He
stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
{16:49} Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and
seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.
{16:50} Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tent of meeting:
and the plague was stayed.
{17:1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {17:2} Speak to the children
of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers' house, of all
their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: write
you every man's name on his rod. {17:3} You shall write Aaron's name
on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their
fathers' houses. {17:4} You shall lay them up in the tent of meeting
before the testimony, where I meet with you. {17:5} It shall happen,
that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make
to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they
murmur against you. {17:6} Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and
all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to
their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was
among their rods. {17:7} Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the
tent of the testimony. {17:8} It happened on the next day, that Moses
went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for
the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced
blossoms, and bore ripe almonds. {17:9} Moses brought out all the rods
from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and
took every man his rod. {17:10} Yahweh said to Moses, Put back the rod
of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the
children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings
against me, that they not die. {17:11} Thus did Moses: as Yahweh
commanded him, so did he. {17:12} The children of Israel spoke to
Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.
{17:13} Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tent of Yahweh,
dies: shall we perish all of us?
{18:1} Yahweh said to Aaron, You and your sons and your fathers'
house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and
your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. {18:2}
Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring
you near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to
you: but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the
testimony. {18:3} They shall keep your charge, and the charge of all
the Tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the
sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.
{18:4} They shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tent of
meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not
come near to you. {18:5} You shall keep the charge of the sanctuary,
and the charge of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the
children of Israel. {18:6} I, behold, I have taken your brothers the
Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift,
given to Yahweh, to do the service of the tent of meeting. {18:7} You
and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of
the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give
you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes
near shall be put to death. {18:8} Yahweh spoke to Aaron, I, behold, I
have given you the charge of my wave offerings, even all the holy
things of the children of Israel; to you have I given them by reason
of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever. {18:9} This
shall be your of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every
offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin
offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they
shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.
{18:10} As the most holy things shall you eat of it; every male shall
eat of it: it shall be holy to you. {18:11} This is your: the wave
offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of
Israel; I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your
daughters with you, as a portion forever; everyone who is clean in
your house shall eat of it. {18:12} All the best of the oil, and all
the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them
which they give to Yahweh, to you have I given them. {18:13} The
first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to
Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat
of it. {18:14} Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours. {18:15}
Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to
Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless the
firstborn of man shall you surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean
animals shall you redeem. {18:16} Those who are to be redeemed of them
from a month old shall you redeem, according to your estimation, for
the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same
is twenty gerahs). {18:17} But the firstborn of a cow, or the
firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not
redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar,
and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet
savor to Yahweh. {18:18} The flesh of them shall be your, as the wave
offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours. {18:19} All
the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel
offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters
with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever
before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you. {18:20} Yahweh said to
Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you
have any portion among them: I am your portion and your inheritance
among the children of Israel. {18:21} To the children of Levi, behold,
I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for
their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of
meeting. {18:22} Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near
the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die. {18:23} But the
Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall
bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your
generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no
inheritance. {18:24} For the tithe of the children of Israel, which
they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites
for an inheritance: therefore I have said to them, Among the children
of Israel they shall have no inheritance. {18:25} Yahweh spoke to
Moses, saying, {18:26} Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and
tell them, When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I
have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up
a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe. {18:27} Your
wave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of
the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress. {18:28}
Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your
tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you
shall give Yahweh's wave offering to Aaron the priest. {18:29} Out of
all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering of Yahweh, of all
the best of it, even the holy part of it out of it. {18:30} Therefore
you shall tell them, When you heave the best of it from it, then it
shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing
floor, and as the increase of the winepress. {18:31} You shall eat it
in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in
return for your service in the tent of meeting. {18:32} You shall bear
no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it the best of it:
and you shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel,
that you not die.
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